As Toyota Motor Corp. and Mazda Motor Corp. begin to scour the U.S. in search of a location for the first new auto assembly plant announced since President Donald Trump took power, one state looks like a front-runner: Mississippi.
The Magnolia State is already home ...

Toyota Motor Corp. will test a car-sharing service in Thailand using its mini electric vehicle model from December.
It is believed to be the first attempt to provide an environmentally friendly transportation solution in an emerging country facing urban air pollution.
Ten one-passenger EVs will be ...

In a bid to accelerate joint production in the United States and develop electric vehicles in a world moving away from fossil fuels, Toyota Motor Corp. and Mazda Motor Corp. agreed Friday to form a capital alliance.
The move by the nation's biggest automaker and ...

When it comes to recruiting tech talent, Toyota Motor Corp. is anything but subtle.
The Japanese automaker recently launched a marketing campaign targeting information technology specialists and software engineers along Tokyo's suburban Nambu railway line, where the research centers of Japan's signature tech giants are ...

Akio Toyoda has opened an account on Weibo seeking to win friends in China, an uncommon social media presence for Toyota Motor Corp.'s boss.
Toyoda, 61, the president and chief executive officer of Asia's biggest automaker, got more than 16,000 followers within hours of his ...

Toyota Motor Corp. is considering expanding the number of employees eligible for its flexible working hours system and guaranteeing 45 hours of extra work pay a month regardless of actual overtime hours, its officials said Wednesday.
The measure is aimed at allowing workers to choose ...

Toyota Motor Corp. stood out as the only major automaker to increase U.S. sales last month, while Nissan Motor Co. and Honda Motor Co. both beat projections, as demand at traditional U.S. automakers slumped.
Sales at Toyota rose 3.6 percent in July, defying estimates of ...

Asian carmakers are taking hits to their profits from having to spend more to move metal in America.
Nissan Motor Co. and Hyundai Motor Co. both cited higher incentive spending in the U.S. as reasons behind a slump in quarterly profit, with a political backlash ...

Toyota Motor Corp., off to a slow start selling its car of the future on one U.S. coast, is struggling even to get started on the other.
Hang-ups getting enough hydrogen-fueling stations opened in California have undercut early sales of the fuel cell vehicle named ...

Toyota Motor Corp. unveiled its new North American headquarters in Plano to the media on Thursday.
The head office of wholly owned subsidiary Toyota Motor North America Inc. is a seven-building complex that brings together the group's sales and financial operations in California, production unit ...